Security

Christmas has come and gone and, if gadget sales figures are anything to go by, many people were given mobile phones, PCs, laptops and tablets…

Although organisations accept that POPI is inevitable, many seem to be opting for a reactive as opposed to a pro-active approach when it comes…

Last year was a difficult time for businesses when it came to cybercrime. In the US, organisations including Sony and eBay were compromised when…

While the increasing use of home automation technology to create your version of a ‘smart house’ may be all the trend and seem practical,…

The South African 2014 cybercrime losses are estimated at R5.8-billion and statistics show it takes on average 200 days for an organisation to identify…

Schools around South Africa are increasingly looking to technology to enrich learning and make school administration more efficient. Those with ample resources already have…

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are back in the news; it seems that barely a month goes by without media reports of a…

In the digital age, information is the new currency. And in order to get information, enterprises are mining data — and lots of it…

From a security point of view, 2014 was pretty disastrous for people and companies alike. Celebrities saw their private photos leaked, thanks to a…

2014 has been particularly busy for IT security professionals. Many of the threats that we predicted at the start of the year duly emerged,…

Twenty years ago Stephen Hawking, the leading physicist and author, said that computer viruses should be treated as a life form, as they exploit…

The past few years has seen information security undergoing a radical transformation. A discipline once seen as no more than a necessary evil, security…